What's the weirdest scandal a celebrity has been involved in?

KKkitty

For me it's Jimmy Carr's tax scandal. Seems weird that he thought he'd get away with it. What's yours?

magicbastarder

don johnson being caught with $8bn of bearer bonds and other financial documents in his car.

https://uproxx.com/viral/the-story-behind-don-johnsons-mysterious-8-billion-briefcase/

cdeb

Freddie Starr ate someone's hamster once I believe.

cdeb

Hm - duplicate post. Welcome to the new boards I guess!

Edit - Hm - not a duplicate post. I've no idea what's going on...

EmmetSpiceland

https://boards.ie/discussion/2058199584/whats-the-weirdest-scandal-a-celebrity-has-been-involved-in

Seems weird that he pulled out of the deal. All he did was make use of a “loophole” that lots of other high net worth individuals were using.

Wasn’t Cameron implicated in some dodgy “dealings”, himself, not too long ago? And he was one of the main finger pointers at Carr.

iffandonlyif

https://boards.ie/discussion/2058199584/whats-the-weirdest-scandal-a-celebrity-has-been-involved-in

You think the weirdest scandal a celebrity has been involved in was the one where Jimmy Carr’s asset management company exploited a legal tax loophole?

Ger Roe

it has to be Michael Barrymore and the body found in his swimming pool ... a tragic case for the victim (Stuart Lubbock) and his family and totally inexplicable, it would seem. Even after many years of investigation.

I don't know how the family cope with not knowing what happened in a house that was full of party people at the time.

iamstop

This case with Pras from the Fugees is a weird one:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/pras-michel-charged-conspiring-conceal-foreign-political-contributions-1209731/

cavemeister

Although tame by today's standards, when the Pamela Anderson & Tommy Lee sex tape came out, it was one of the craziest things we ever heard!

SheepsClothing

Armie Hammer's cannibalism fetish.

gypsy79

The Benzema and Valbuena affair is still a bit odd

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jan/07/real-madrid-karim-benzema-to-face-blackmail-trial-over-sex-tape-scandal

Brussels Sprout

This one was memorable:

Brazilian football star Ronaldo has been caught up in a sex scandal with three cross-dressing prostitutes.

Having dropped off his girlfriend at her house in Rio de Janeiro on Monday night, the 2002 World Cup winner picked up three prostitutes.

When they all booked into a motel, the AC Milan striker discovered that the prostitutes were in fact men.

According to Rio police, he alleges that the transvestites then tried to extort money from him.

Arghus

The Armie Hammer cannibalism stuff was just next level compared to all the other scandals.

I mean cannibalism, come on...

swimming in a sea

Rothko

Ian Watkins. Although I think extreme would be a better word than "weird."

Yurt2

The Cruiser being close to the top of the pyramid in an international brainwashing cult is pretty weird - but he's probably the biggest movie star of the past few decades, so it gets ignored. I mean, I'll definitely be going to see Top Gun 2 and everything, but still...

AllGunsBlazing

Troy McClure sleeping with the fishes.

HBC08

The singer Duffy being kidnapped,Google it,mad stuff altogether.

fryup

marc almond - or it that one just an urban myth??

dinorebel

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117633776#Comment_117633776

More oral history I think.

Dufflecoat Fanny

David Cameron and his accusations of fcuking a pigs head. Charlie Brooker made an episode of Black Mirror that almost prophesied it. Very bizarre.

archfi

The Jussie Smollet debacle.

Though money/career advancement is to be made from grifting.

the Armie Hammer disgusting shitfest wins out though but even that's 'normal' compared to Watkins.

archfi

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117633825#Comment_117633825

Or inspired it maybe?😉

Arghus

Ian Watkins is well up there as well. Beyond fucked.

KaneToad

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117633664#Comment_117633664

At first I thought you were talking about Conor Cruise O'Brien!

xper

Five hours in and no one's even mentioned Saville?

kingtiger

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117632100#Comment_117632100

Didn't Richard Gere allegedly do something else with his hamster :)

Fandymo

Childrens presenter Jamie Theakston caught in a sex dungeon.

Treppen

David Cameron f+++ING a pigs severed head

Burt Renaults

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117633858#Comment_117633858

I never liked Steps either.

AndrewJRenko

Earliest, rather than weirdest : Jeremy Thorpe, then leader of the UK Liberal party, real establishment figure, married, one child, being tried for conspiracy to murder the young man who had been his lover, at a time when homosexual acts were still illegal in law. Scott's dog was shot during one murder attempt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorpe_affair

I remember it being on the news, at a time when being gay was something laughed at in sitcoms and comedy shows.

It was really well covered in A Very British Scandal, starring Hugh Grant, directed by Stephen Frears (of the Snapper and the Van).

iamstop

Jared from the Subway ads.

BorneTobyWilde

Ronaldo ''' discovering'' that the 3 hookers he picked up were Trans

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2008/04/29/ac-milan-star-admits-incident-with-a-group-of-transexual-prostitutes/

bmc58

Ben Dunne high on coke on top of a building in the US.And his "donations to Charlie Haughie and the one and only Michael Lowrey".

bmc58

Our former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern not having a Bank Account,and winning loads on the horses...yeah right.How do we Irish let these people away with this s*it???

freshpopcorn

bigar

Boy George falsely imprisoning a male escort by handcuffing him to a wall and beating him with a metal chain. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison.

Boy George gets 15 months for falsely imprisoning male escort | Boy George | The Guardian

Hangdogroad

Neil Prendiville exposing himself to passengers and masturbating on an Aer Lingus flight.

L1011

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117636556#Comment_117636556

Gerard Depardieu whipping it out to have a slash in the aisle of a Cityjet flight.

These happened within a few months of each other too!

Ray Palmer

Eddie Murphy caught picking up a trans prostitute

Richard Prior had sex with Marlon Brando and he also had sex with Margo Kidder. So he had sex with Superman's dad and girlfriend

retalivity

The one from smallville that was jailed for coercing women into her sex cult.

Jimmy page kidnapping an underage groupie and taking her on tour.

The many adventures of Randy Quaid - multiple burglaries, trespassing, deportations etc

seenitall

The mysterious death of the film-maker Tom Ince on board the mega-rich and powerful newspaper magnate W.R. Hearst’s yacht while at sea. He was actually said to have died a few days later in the hospital, ostensibly from health complications, but no one ever believed that. The story is that the young and cocky Charlie Chaplin had been romancing Hearst’s mistress Marion Davies, and so on a moonless yachting evening, a case of mistaken identity put a bullet into Ince’s head instead of Chaplin’s, with everything being hushed up thereafter. A very interesting case, they made a film about it that I have to get around to seeing, ‘The Cat’s Meow’.

Talking of yachts... Natalie Wood of course. Who knows what really happened there.

Isabelle Adjani had a rumour following her in the late eighties that she had AIDS. More idiocy than scandal.

Mentioning Adjani reminds me that Day-Lewis dumped her through fax, the poor woman. And Matt Damon went one better and broke up with Minnie Driver while on a chat-show. But I’m sceptical of that last one as it wasn’t to be found on YouTube when I went looking. Surely, it would be there?

Clark Gable fathered one of Loretta Young’s kids, Orson Welles fathered one of Geraldine Fitzgerald’s. Hollywood open secrets.

Marlon Brando really put it about with a vengeance. A Mick, or a Rod, of his day.

Polanski and Manson, Tate and Geimer. Horrible stuff all round.

Ryan O’Neal is said to have a temper. We’ll say no more.

Sean Penn, ditto. Lately, Ellen DeGeneres. And a couple other US showhosts, along with Weinstein, Spacey and all that jazz.

Billy Crudup ran off with Claire Danes while his girlfriend was 8 months pregnant. Which is probably even worse than Tom Brady running off with Gisele Buendchen when his girlfriend was 2 months pregnant. Not great, in any case.

Law cheated on Frost with Miller, then he cheated on Miller with his kids’ nanny, meanwhile Miller cheated on him with Craig, whereupon Law and Craig had a good old natter about it all on the blower, which was all duly recorded by Piers Morgan and got a good airing in court as well. Then Miller had the wise idea to bring some of all this excitement stateside as well, so chose the married father of four Balthasar Getty to have an affair with, next. And so on and so forth.

More recently, Ewan McGregor thanking both his wife and his mistress for their unwavering support in his Award-acceptance speech last year. The wife wasn’t one bit impressed!

teddyhead

Jimmy Savilles work in Ireland ,with certain charities,prominent priests. Its like it never happened.

KKkitty

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Was there a DNA test done to see if Ronan Farrow is Frank Sinatra's son? He doesn't look anything like Woody Allen thankfully. Woody marrying his step daughter was so weird too. Hollywood is full of secrets.

Hangdogroad

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117639792#Comment_117639792

Dickie Rocks 1974 album I Believe In Music has a photo on the back hed probably rather forget.

seenitall

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117640644#Comment_117640644

No, I don’t think so. Sinatra was already long dead by the time Farrow came out with this nugget, and his family dismissed it out of hand, so that was that I think. But the guy does look much more like Sinatra than like Allen, it has to be said. The ole blue eyes.

Yeah, Allen and Farrow and the whole clusterfcuk with several of her adopted kids... the stories and the he said-she said are still being rehashed all these years later. One of the biggest scandals of the nineties, along with Lewinski’s famous blue dress, of course, and I forget all about it! Good call :D

bnt

In 1940, actress Carole Lombard was approached by her press agent with a plan to fake her death for publicity. The idea is that her plane would go down, she'd be reported dead, then twelve hours later she'd walk out of the forest with a shocking story. According to reports such as this, she loved the idea and they started planning for the "event", but didn't go through with it due to cost.

In January 1942, Carole Lombard was aboard a TWA flight that crashed in to a mountain near Las Vegas, killing all 22 people on board.

Capt'n Midnight

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117634342#Comment_117634342

Ben there, Dunne that, bought the Taoiseach.

ShatterAlan

https://boards.ie/discussion/2058199584/whats-the-weirdest-scandal-a-celebrity-has-been-involved-in

A tax scandal is weird?

EmmetSpiceland

https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117643115#Comment_117643115

Wasn’t even illegal.

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/the-killer-the-will-and-the-500k-gubu-legacy-35522619.html

When the prosecution offered to outline the facts of the case, the trial judge said this was not necessary and the entire proceedings were over in an estimated seven minutes.

Nothing about that case made sense.